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> From: "md3bs" <d.e.1.mayfield@herts.ac.uk>
> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:59:53 +0100
> 
> find-dired does not work because I have filenames with spaces in them.
> 
> it does work when I use it on Linux
> 
> How can I do multiple find and replace on windows. This should be a common 
> task. I can't seem to find any suggestions on the web. 

You don't need find-dired for that, the normal Dired will do.  It has
the `Q' command that will perform find and replace on all the files
you mark.  If you need to do this recursively in subdirectories, use
the `i' command to insert subdirectories into the Dired buffer.